Cedar Point's Next Coaster: Do You Think It Would More Likely Be An Intamin Or a B&M?

There are 4 wing riders that are going up going from 108-210ft tall...shortest is Raptor at Gardaland, tallest will be Wild Eagle in Dollywood...Other two are swarm at Thorpe and X-Flight at SFGA

Wild Eagle's 210' height comes from the fact that it's built on the side of a huge hill. It's still the tallest though at 135' when counting it's true drop. ;)

It's still 210 feet up :P.

I think considering coasters going in at parks around us, a dive coaster would be the best fit.

Maverick00 said:
If CP was to get a B&M, they would really have to make it special in some way to set it apart from other B&Ms.

I don't think so. You and perhaps a few dozen other people on Earth would notice if two B&M coasters at two different parks were identical. Even fewer people would care.

Most people probably think their local Vekoma SLC is a custom job.

djDaemon said:

You and perhaps a few dozen other people on Earth would notice if two B&M coasters at two different parks were identical. Even fewer people would care.

I don't really notice they're the same. All I'm saying is nearly every park has a invert of some sort, especially B&Ms and if Cedar Point really wants to make a big bang with their coaster, it would need to be something different that nobody has really heard of.

I'm not speaking for all enthusiasts but I'm sure the majority of them all know B&Ms first stand up coaster, first invert, first hyper. But I doubt they know B&Ms 10th standup, invert, or hyper.

I'm just saying it needs to be different, something people haven't seen or are familiar with.

Is anyone else becoming more and more jealous, such as myself, everytime there is a Leviathan construction update?!?! CP needs one of those next year! This thing is definitely going to be rank #1 in the world and I don't need to ride it to know that it will take top coaster! Just look at it... and it's B&M!!!

^^I really don't think Cedar Point needs another 300+ ft tall roller coaster. It would just feel the same as millenium unless they were to add some inversions and what not. I like maverick. Just average in height, but it really packs a punch.

I do not think Leviathan will get the #1 coaster in the world. I'm not sure if it will even get "Best new ride for 2012" either. There really isn't anything all that special about it other than the fact that it is B&M's first giga coaster. However, when Millenium was built, it was the first roller coaster to ever reach 300 feet tall so that was something pretty extraordinary. In my opinion, Leviathan is just a bigger version of a coaster they already have at the park, Behemoth.

http://0.tqn.com/d/themeparks/1/0/V/l/behemothpre1.jpg

^Behemoth

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9EbjrAwxOO0/Tkz_tUPIKxI/AAAAAAAACp8/gPKtLhMVank/s1600/leviathan_layout_1024x768.jpg

^ Leviathan

In fact, Behemoth actually looks more exciting than Leviathan based on looking at the layouts. Leviathan looks like Behemoth without a helix at the end and less hills.

Is there a reason that seated-coasters don't have true front-flips?

I know that inverted coasters have them, but I can't think of any other coasters that have a front flip (I may be very wrong, I just can't think of any).

Is it a safety issue?

What's a front flip?

All of the loops I can think of, you enter from the bottom and go up and back instead of down and forward.

I fear that I am not making sense. ha.

Yeah I dont understand. Can you post a picture of a "front flip"

haha... I would if I could, but I don't know of any that exist anywhere!

Imagine that you are traveling down the track and your car goes down into a loop (like you're going down a hill), you then make the loop on the outside of the track, then come back up the other side.

or... imagine a standard loop, but flip it so the round part is facing down instead of up.

Like this?

http://www.rcdb.com/10139.htm?p=36889

or this?
http://www.rcdb.com/3866.htm?p=24218

YES!!! The first picture is more like the one that I was envisioning. (minus the twist in it)

Thank you!

Awesome! ... CP needs one of those!!

Those look cool. But I can't imagine that they have high capacity.

I'll actually be able to ride the superman one this summer and those trains look so short. I'm expecting a long line especially because it's a shuttle coaster.

So in other words, instead of entering the loop and go up like toward's the sky, you enter the loop from the top going down?

@Maverick00 ... that's exactly what I mean.

I am thinking that there would be some safety concerns as your head wouldn't be pushed back into the seats, but forward...

I think xfireboyx is talking about something similar to a B&M Pretzel Loop, but on a standard sit down coaster. Something like this